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Trampled to Death. in Bush for Better Seats in Hall in England. ’A 'dcspatch from Barnsley, England, says: Sixteen children were to death and forty others, several of whom cannot live. were injured, in a mad rush for better seats at an enter- tainment given in the public hall here on Saturday afternoon. There was a great rush to secure ad- mittance to the entertainment, and when the show opened every seat was taken. and the gallery was literally packed with children, who filled the aisles and were dangerously massed against the lower railing. With a view to relieving this crowding in the gallery the attendants . decided to transfer some of the children to the body of the house, and one of the ushers called out, “Seine of you children ocme downstairs." Immediately the rush started, and within a few seconds hundreds of chil- dren were being trampled under 1001. Even those who had seats in the gal- lery, doubtless being panicstricken by the screams and struggles of the crowds lighting to reach the staircases, joined in the stampede. The scene was a terrible one, the cries trampled cf the injured and the moans of the d)" ini.t causing the. greatest excitement amongr those gathered in the body of the ball. ’l‘ullCt‘ and ushers rushed to the. head of the staircase, which was literally strewn with dead and dying, and by the most desperate efforts managed in) drag some of the struggliiq.r children to the corridors below. It was with the great- est dilllculty that. a panic among the children in the lower part of the house was averted, all of these. eventually be« int; taken to the streets in safety. When the reserve police arrived they found the narrow stairway practically blocked with bodies, which were crust1cd in some cases almost beyond recognition. Scores of children were found lalrr to be suffering: from lracturcd bones and St» vcre lacerations, caused by the indescribâ€" able manner in which they had been trampled upon. Soon after the accident the approaches to the half were crowded with sobbing women searching for their missing chilv dt-cn. W‘fl Tilt worm MARKETS REPORTS FROM TIIE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. â€"â€" Prices of Cattle, Grain, (.‘aeese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. Toronto, Jan. 11,. -- Flour â€"â€" Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents are quoted at 53-70 to $3.75 in huyers‘ sacks outside for export. Manitoba flour unchanged; first patents, $6; second patents, $5.30 to $5.40, and strong bakers’, $5.20. Wheatâ€"Manitoba odes were quiet. No. 1 Nor_thern quoted at $1.21, lake ports; No. 2 Northern quoted at $1.16. lake ports; and No. 3 Northern at $1.13. lake ports. Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 white and red quoted at 97 to 980 outside, and No. 2 mixed at 96 to 96%0 outside. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white on track, Toronto. 49% to 506, and outside at 117 to 117%0. Corn~No. 3 American new yellow is quoted at 66c, Toronto, and kiln-dried new No. 3 mixed at 65%c, Toronto. Ryeâ€"No. 2 quoted at 81 to 820 outside. Buckwheatâ€"62c outside. ‘ Barleyâ€"No. 2 quoted at 750 outside No. 3 extra at 72c outside, and No. 3 at 70c outside. Branâ€"$18.50 to $19 in bulk outside. Shorts are quoted at $21 to $22 outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€"Winter, $2 to $3.25 per barrel. Beansâ€"Prime, $1.65 to $1.70; and hand-picked, $1.80 to $1.85. Honeyâ€"12 to tile per lb for strained. and at $1.75 to $2.50 for combs. Poultryâ€"Turkeys, dre55ed, 12 10 14c pet lb for chd'ice; chickens, alive, 5 to 60' pct lb; dressed, 9 to 10¢; ducks, dressed. 0 to 11c per lb; geese, dressed, 0 to 10c. Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy quoted at $16.50 to $17.50 here in ear lots. Strawâ€"Steady at $9.50 to $10.50 a ton on track here. P0111IOCS~C11P lots are quoted at 70 to 75(- per bag on track. . THE DAIRY lt'IARKETS. Butterâ€"Pound prints, 21 to 25c, and large rolls, 22 to 23c; do, inferior, 20 to 21c. Creamery rules at. 28 to 290, and solids at 25 to 260. Eggsâ€"Cold storage are quoted at 20 to 21c and upwards. Cheeseâ€"13% in 13%0 in a jobbing way. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 10 to 10541: per lb In case lots; mess pork, $18 to $10: short cut, $22 to $22.50. HamSâ€"Iight to medium, 14% to 15c: do, heavy, 12% to 13c; rolls, 10%c: shoulders, 10c; backs. 16 to 16%c; break- last bacon. 14% to 15c. Lardâ€"’l‘icrces, 11%c; tubs, 12c; 12%;. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. ‘ Montreal, Jan. S.-tSpreial.)â€"â€"Grainâ€" The. market for oats is tirm: car lots Ontario No. 2 white at 52c. No. :1 at 13‘ to isxc, No. .1 at 17 10 17,19; and re- pails, jectcd at 16c per hrshel ex store“? Flourâ€"Choice Spring \vhcat patents. $6.10 to $6.25; seconds, $5.50 to $5.65 winter wheat patents. $5.50: straight rollers, $5 to $5.25; do, in bags, $2.25 to $2.50; extras, $1.30 to $1.00. Feedâ€"â€" Manitoba bran, $22; shorts. $23; On- tario bran, $22 to $22.50; middlings, $211 to $25; shorts, $22.50 to $23 per ton, inâ€" cluding bags; milled mouillle. $26 to $28; and pure grain, mouillie, $33 to $35 per ton. Provisionsâ€"Barrels short cut. mess. $22.50 to $23; half barrels, $11.75 to $12.25; clear fat backs, $23.50 to $211.50: long cut heavy mess, $21 to $24; half barrels do, $105010 $11.25; dry salt long clear backs, 10% to 11%c; barrels plate beef, $13.50 to $15: half barrels do. $7.25 to $7.75; barrels heavy mess beef. $10 to $11; half barrels do, $5.50 to $6; compound lard, 10 to its; pure lard, 12% to 13c; kettle rendercd.,12% to 13c; hams. 12 to 13%c; breakfast bacon, 1/1 to 15c Windsor bacon, 111% to 15%c: fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $8.75 to $9.25; alive, $6.50. Butterâ€"September. 2% to 29c; Iresh receipts. 26 to 27c; dairy. 3 to 25c. Cheeseâ€"13x to 13%c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, Jan. 14.â€"thatâ€"No. 1 Northern, $1.13 to $1.14; No. 2 Northern, $1.10 to $1.11}§; May, $1.05%3 asked. Ryeâ€"Higher; N0. 1, 83% to 81c. Barley â€"No. 2. $1.04; sample, 70: to $1.04. Cornâ€"No. 3, 56 to 590; May, 40 to 60%c bid. Duluth, Jan. 14.â€"â€"Wheatâ€"â€"No. 1 hard. 51.11%; No. 1 Northern, $1.09%; No. 2 Northern, $1.07}{,; May, 31.12%; July, 81.13%. - St. LouiS, Jan. 1’1.â€"Wheatâ€"Cash. 91.01%; May, $1.05; July, 95%c. Minneapolis. Jan. 14.â€"Wheatâ€"May. 51.12%; July, $1.12%; No. 1 hard, 531.14%; No. 1 Northern, 331.12%; No. 2 Northern, 19.10%; No. 3 Northern, $1.06% to 51.08%. Flourâ€"Steady: First patents. $51.70 to $5.80; second patents. $5.60 to 3.70; first ClCfll'S, $11.30 to $1.10: second cleats, $3.50 to $3.60. Branâ€"«In bulk, $19.50. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Jan. 1/i.â€"Picked butchers sold between $1.70 and $71.80 with choice lots from $4.25 to $4.50; medium to good, $3.75 to $1.25; common to medium, $2.75 to $3.75. Choice cows sold from $3.50 to $3.85, with a little higher price paid in one or two instances. Medium quality cows, $3 to $3.40; common cows, $2.25 to‘$2.75; canners, 75c to $1.00. Canning.r bulls sold at to $2.50, Buying for export was again limited to bulls, a number selling at $3.50 to $4.25, with extra good quality ranging up to $4.50. Choice stockers wore quoted at from $1 to $3.75, with light weights from $2 11,: $2.75. Calves were steady pound. There was the usual steady demand for good milchers, ChJICC selling at $10 to $55. with medium at $25 to Export ewes soil at $3.75 to $4.25; bucks and culls $3 to $3.50: lambs sold at $1 to $6, according: to quality. lions were s'eady at $5.00 for the best; $5,155 for medium, and 85.10 for common. at 30 to Go per til‘ THE HIGHEST PENALTY Three Years in Penitentiary for Attempt- ted Stabbing. A dcspateh from Montreal says: Jutlch Choquette placed himself on xxx-«rd in‘ the t‘ourt of Special Sessions on Thurs- day as being tlv‘lt‘l‘llllllt‘d to put a stop tr. the habit so common among: littlittns in this city of carryingr and using wra- puts. “You are a toreijmer. seven months in this Country." said his llonor, in sen- trla‘ing a young Italian named Michaela Marino to three years in penitentiary, “and it is pmved that without the shut-test. provoratlm you tmk out a, razor and struck Antonio 'l‘atli on the neck, causing: him lodtly harm. For- tunately you did not udntnit murder. Italians in this country must. understand that they have to stop those practiCesâ€" that thry must not carry knives‘or' razors. This is a quiet. Country. yet in! this city we hear every day of quarrels and nmrdcrs. Such quarrels and mur- ders must he put a stop to. Anyone who is found guilty of such offence as at present before this court will be most R-verely punished. The highest penalty in the prowl“ instance is three yrars in jx‘nitcntiai-y, and I inflict three years." FATIIER AND DAUGHTER KILLED. Crossing Accident at Cedar Springs. A despatch from Thomas says: A terrible Cl't)&<lllg fatality occurred at Cedar Springs, near Bothwml. (n Said tirday night, when the l‘crc Marqurtte acconmiodalion, due. here at. 0 o'clock tl‘tinfllillji at forty mile an hour, shack a democrat wagu‘on in which wrrt- seated Samuel (irourh and David 'l‘trlt". CitiCrly farmers residinpr Ir-ar llicnlicnn, and Mr. Ct'ourh‘s twt-i‘il]yi-ti\'e~ycaradii daughter. All threw w« rc thrown about. one hundred fwl. and Mr. Crouch and bus daughter .lvilled instantly. Mr. Crouch was almost sialped and otln-r- wise mangled, while the girl hail her ntck broken. Mr. ’l‘olc was srvervly injured, amt no hopes are (‘ltlt'l’ittlttul to! his recovery. Mr. 't‘ole was ialvrn to Blenheim for medical treatment, while the bodies of Mr. Crouch and his daughter were taken to the station. and are held pending inquiry. The rig was demolished, one horse instantly killed, and the. other so badly injurel it had to be destroyed. The party had been to Chatham. and wire returning home when the accident ocrurred. it is believed they thought the train would stop at Cedar Springs, a flag station. Shocking El. _.___*_â€"_.._c EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. Taking Advantage of Their Work. A despatch from Ottawa says: The twentieth annual report. of the, work done and in pronl't‘fis. ut the several lio- minion experimental farms was tabled in tip Commons on Friday. It. contains the results of many important and carefully conducted experiments in agriculture, horticulture and arborculture carried on during the last year. The director, Dr. \\'in. Saunders, notes thatthe large and ccnstantly increasing demand by the farmers of the Dominion for the publicaâ€" tions issued from the experimental falins, the rapidly extending COI'I‘C‘SpOII- deuce, and the readiness shown twcry- where to cooperate with the work of the [aims in testing new and pmmising varieties of cereals furnish gratifying evidence of the desire for the latest scientific information among:r the agri- culturists of Canada. Dill'lllg 1006 nearly 48,000 farmers have joined in coopera- tive tests of seeds for the improven‘icnt of crops. Sixteen thousand samples oi grain of various kinds were sent. out to Iarmcns in Quebec and seven thousand to Ontario farmers. Agricullurists up____. MURDERED BY STRANGER. Alexander Swart: Shot Down at White- mouth, Manitoba. A dcspatch from Whitemouth, l\ian.. says: Alex. Swartz was murdered in cold blood by an unknown man near here on Thursday night for the sake of a small sum of money. He had been in Winnipeg, where he sold three cars of wcod, realizing $150. 110 returned on the evening train, and was seen to leave the station to walk to his home, accompan- ied by a stranger. Next day his body was found beside the River road, about three-quarters of a mile from town, with a bullet through the head. The pockets had been rifled. The presumption is that the murderer shot Swartz and then hastened back to the station and caught the express for the west. The dead man leaves a widow and three little children. ..___..x-.__.. .. “’ALL FELL 0N FIREMEN. One Killed and Two Seriously Injured at Montreal. A d-espaleli‘from Montreal says: As the result of a small fire on Notre Dame street on Sunday night one fireman is (lead and two others seriously injured. Fire broke out in a small fancy goods store through an overheated stove. The store was on the ground floor of a ramshackle three-stumey brick building. and while fighting the tlamcs part. of the wall fell otit, Crushing anotmn Gagnon, N. Narbonne and \'. La- mouche, firemen. Cagnon diczl on his way to the hospital. and the others are badly injured. The loss by fire was trifling, and alart from the falling wall the billltllllg was uninjured. «41‘ MAY SAVE MANY LIVES. Passenger Cars to be Equipme \Vith Extinguishers. A despatch from Ottawa says: \\'ith a view to preventing fires in connection with railway wrecks and the constituent burning to death of those who might be caught in the wreckage. the. Rail- wav Commission has passed an order cmhpellzng all railway companies to install two fire extinguishers in each passenger coach. A line of $25 is im- posed tor each failure to comply with the, order. The companies are given until January next to have extinguish- crs placed on all cars now in use. __.'_.x.___-__ AN ENORAIOLS DEFICIT. I-russian Government \\'ill Have to Pro- cure $110,300,000. A dcspalch from Berlin says: In the course of the sitting on \Vcdnesday of the Landtag. Huron \‘on Illlclllliitl-cll. l“i'u»ian Minister cf State and Finance, went over the figures of the Prussian budget for 1003. The total is Salesman) and shows the enormous deficit of $110.- 51a.,000. A loan is to be issued for 363.- 0104100; 310110000 will 10 obtained by ircrcased taxation. and the remainder wil. l-c covered. it is ht'vpcd. l'vy augment- ing the revenue l‘ecclpiS. 'l'he caucus of this deficit are diminution in the rch- nnes. fresh I‘Xllt‘lldlltll‘f'é for railroads, and incrcasts til the salaries oi State cihcials. ‘1 urn BllttltD illlltlll’l Employed as Engineer in a Tunnel at New York. A drsthatch from New York says: At- graph of l‘ouren, in possession of the- tcr a ceaseless Search of nearly two ."tars. Jan Janoff l‘onrcn. allrged to lo a notorious llusxian wanted in the Province of l.i‘.on‘a, lttzs- .s‘itt. for murder, arson and l'Ultl‘t'l'lt‘S without number, was caught here on \\rtlne.~lay. lie was arrested on the complant ol‘ the, Russian Consul-than eral. M. De Lettygensky. and hold for further examination and the arrival of n‘xtraditiun papers. l‘ouru-n is a mild~looking man, and isubm vi 0 without protest. lie was tilllpltimul as an engineer in one of the East ltiver tunnels. He admitted his identity by indicating that the photo- A DRAYLOAD 0F BOOTY. The \Vinnipeg I’olit‘e Bring Off a Big Statement For .I’irst “out. A (le-‘patch from Winnipeg says: A gilltt: of desperate burglars, who lune lxen operating here for the past we “it. were. cleverly rounded up by the police on Friday afternoon, and all are now under arrest. By a lucky circumstance they were discovered at work in (Io- ht-n‘s store by a patrolman on Friday morning. All escaped arrest but one, who gave the name of A. l’oricscue, but his personality. afforded a clue w hica led to the capture of the entire. gang early in the afternoon. At. the head- quarters of the gang the police secured a big dray load of stolen merchandise o! a miscellaneous character. The. rob- bers pitched a camp in a bush two miles from the city. They confessed to the police that they had intended stealingr a team of horSes on Friday night and driving over the border with the loot. Among the spoils were eighty- tlve watches, which had been r‘lolcn in Brandon. The men gave. the names of B. Martin, H. Boyd. R. Calder, M. Ray- mond, and all of them are English- men. .____q._._..._ ACCIDENTS AT MONTREAL. Old Man Knocked Down by Runaway Horse and Killed. A dcspatch from Montreal says: An old gentleman, about seventy years of age, was knocked down and run over by a runaway horse at the corner of St. Mark and St. Catherine streets on Friday and sustained inurics from which he died. The victim when taken to the General Hospital said his name was Simpson, but, that was all he could say before he became unconscious. There was nothing found in his pockets by which he could be identified. Miss Marguerite Savage, about forty years of age, dropped deal at the Em- pire Cafe, corner of Craig and st. Alex- ander streets on Friday. Deceased had been boarding in the house about a week. Robert Cartwright, employed on the Grand Trunk Railway, was admitted to the General Hospital early on Fri- day morning with both his hands and his feet cut off. He is unable to ex- plain the cause of the accident. “'INNII’EG TO NEW YORK. Railway Connection Expected to Give I’orty-cight-hour Service. A dcspatch from Winnipeg says; Placingr Winnipeg within ‘18 hours of New York is one of the possibilities, it may be said probabilities. of the new connection that the Canadian Northern secures by the completion of the. \\'inni- peg: & Duluth Railway. It is figured out that a service can be arranged by which n traveller leaving:r \\'innipeg, shy, (in ’l'hursday morning,r at H o'clock. Can he landed in New York at about the same ht ur on Saturday morning. New l l i (lt‘lt‘t'll\‘t“'. was a picture of himself. The. ltus<lan is charged with numer- I'll\. crime-s in Riga, Livonia, where, I’l’ldt‘ll‘l “ll” 5 t with several fellmwcountrymen, he ter- rorivrl the province and dcticd arrest. it was the custom of the brigands to- make demands upon citizens for large ruins of money, and aftcr the cxpra- hon of sevtral days, if the money was not forthcoming, they would rob the trams and set. them atlre. When the imitates i-tslstcd, they were murdered, it. is said. l'nllll't‘ll and his associates are charged with l-«ultg particularly active in 1906. having. it. is charged, committed a number of murders and robberies. REVENUE INCREASED. Nine Months of Fiscal Year. A dc.»palc.h from Ottawa says: The statement. of revenue and expenditure of the Dominion for the first nine months of the present fiscal year shows a total revenue of $73,955,958, an in- crease of 37.001205 as compared with the corresponding period of 1006, and a total expenditure on consolidated fund account of $-15,667.t)86, an increase of $8616.076., On capital account the trial expenditure for the nine months was 310271066, an increase oi about ten millions, as compared with the cor- rt-stiond'ng ptrird of 1006. The increase- of course, due to a larger expendi- ture last year on the construction of‘ the National Transcontinental Railway, tie expenditure on which now averages: over one million dollars per month. ()1 the total increase in revenue dur- ing: the, nine months ending with Decemâ€" ber $7 1117.935 came fraim customs, half 7, a million from excise and half a milâ€" lion from the postotllce. _._>1- __«- AFTER MANY YEARS. Dakota Man Finds “life and Children in: Brantford. A despateh from Brantford says: A man named Chambers is here from: Dakota on a strange mission. He claims: that seven years ago his wife deserted lnm, taking:r away two children, a boy and a girl. For years he heard nothing; of them, until lately he learned they were supposed to be living in this vici- nity. The father communicated with the authorities, with the result that the trio have been found in Echo Place. The woman is now residing with another man and their two sons. The Dakota father has taken proceedings to recover his children. RAILROAD MEN LAID OFF. Illinois Central Drops 11,000 Men From' Pay-roll. A despatch from New Orleans says: Between 3.000 and 1000 Illinois Co. emâ€" ploycs have been dropped from the pay- roll on account of the financial situa- tion. This was the announcement here on Tuesday night. of J. '1‘. llarahan, preâ€" " shit-n1 of the lllinois Central Railroad. who said if he could possibly prevent. it no more men would be laid off. .>'- TRANSVAAL GOLD. A Record Output for the Month of December. A despaich from London says: The ’l‘ransvaal yield of gold for the month of Ilc('Ollll.K‘l‘ makes a new record. The out, [ml was 5511.520 omwrs of the yellow mrlal, \vhirh is 28.100 ounces over the previous highest yield for a month. The value of the Dct‘ctllln'r output. is placed. a: £2,178,650. SAYS THAT Will SilllBTi M. Jacques Flaeh Issues a Warning to / the United States. A despatch from Paris says: The sensational section oi the French press continues to dwell upon the probabil- of a clash between Japan and the La Press on Wednes- ity United states. ‘day published a long interview with Jacques Finch, the h'storian and proâ€" tessor in the College of France. who declares his belief that a conflict is cerâ€" tain for the reason that Japan sec-k5 war. He advses the American fleet to be on the watch for a sudden Japan- csc deweut, and asks: “\\‘ho knows if the attack made by the Japanese on the Russian ships at Chetnulpo will not bi repeated upon the American ships tomorrow?" Continuing, M. Flach ad. vises Great Britain and France to inter- wne. ant put an end to the trouble lefore it is too late. The Echo de Paris prints an inter- ,-,cv_,v, ..m:tiiatitig. it says, from an “hufhul‘lZCLI Japanese source" with the object of showing that. Japan is so ab- sorbed with the mainland of Asia that war with America is impossible. “The entire attention of Japan.” savs the Inlt'I‘VlCW. “is occupied with China and Caren, where developments are Go: curring which are givith ’l‘okio the greater-t concern. China has just dis- missed a number of Japanese instruc- tcrs. who have been replaced with Ge-r‘ mans. “’1 he message of the Emperor of Jal pan clearly indicates that the country i. lookingr to the far East. and not in: the direction of America."